Making learning visible
Recognising prior learning.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law
Where will the RE teachers come from?
Shared Space: developing ‘powerful knowledge’ of inter-religious dialogue through a teacher fellowship model for RE specialists.
Inclusive Education and Additional Learning Needs Identification in Wales
Realising aims of inclusive education in Wales.
Feeding hungry families: food banks in schools
Innovative analysis of escalating food aid in schools is raising awareness of the urgent need for progressive policies to reduce food insecurity in the UK.
Students' mental health: pandemic insights
Experiences of home-educating primary-school children, and the reflections, thoughts and feelings of secondary students, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchful practice in early years settings
Educators are leaving the Early Years sector in unprecedented numbers, but conducting and engaging with research may improve job satisfaction and workforce morale.
Enabling young Nigerian entrepreneurs to thrive
A co-produced peer support, training and mentoring programme for young entrepreneurs in Nigeria is boosting participants’ business success and wellbeing.
Promoting oracy in educational settings
A knowledge-exchange programme between the University of Bristol and educational settings in southwest England is developing practice to support children’s oracy.
Oral language support is key for covid recovery
Covid-19 school closures are threatening children’s oral language skills: but whole school universal language interventions could help.
COVID-19 and the 'forced culture change' in higher education
Our research captures the lives and views of those working in higher education during the recent mass online migration.
Development and adoption of national and international physical activity guidelines
We all know that exercise is good for us and that a lack of it contributes towards a range of mental and physical health problems. Globally, one in four adults and three in four adolescents do not currently meet the global recommendations for physical activity set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Achieving justice and improving support and protection for victims-survivors of gender-based violence
Gender-based violence (GBV) is recognised globally as a violation of human rights which disproportionately damages the health and wellbeing of women.
Innovative physical activity interventions for at risk and disadvantaged children and adults
Globally physical activity in adults and children is very low despite compelling evidence regarding the increased risk of disease and death from insufficient physical activity (PA).
Supporting Early Years transition to school
Examining the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on early years transition to school, with a focus on children with SEND and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Reimagining the Diary
Helping to improve teacher wellbeing in the UK
International student mobility and climate change
Estimating the environmental costs associated with the internationalisation of higher education.
Improving scientific understanding of learning
Our research is incorporating neuroscientific understanding into educational theory and practice.
Helping students from rural communities in South Africa to access and succeed in higher education
Supporting changes in institutional practice and national policy to widen participation in higher education for under-represented and marginalised groups in Southern Africa.
Strengthening teaching and learning in schools in Tanzania and Rwanda
Our research is strengthening English-medium school education in sub-Saharan Africa.
Building more inclusive collaborations between universities and communities
Supporting universities to forge research partnerships with communities – especially those who face barriers to participation in research.
Research helps define and improve the management of ‘medical manslaughter’ cases
Dr Oliver Quick is a recognised authority in Criminal Law and Medical Law, with a special interest in patient safety. His recent research has focused on how prosecutors and experts negotiate criminal law and process in these controversial cases.
Improving the quality of life of older people
Using objects and storytelling in care homes helps residents build social connections and improves their quality of life.
Colombian truth commission and educators using research to build peace
Research into how truth commissions have worked with education around the world informs approach of Colombian truth commission as they work to recover from decades of conflict.
Changing public understanding of league tables
Our improved school performance measure is reframing school accountability policy debates.
Everyday Maths resources
Supporting teachers’ engagement with parents around children’s mathematics learning.
Schools as shared spaces
Promote community relations in school classrooms through research informed practice.
Supporting spoken language in the classroom
School of Education collaboration with primary schools enhances vital spoken language skills in the classroom.
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Embedding research findings into teaching and learning primary maths
A successful Knowledge Exchange project funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account has embedded Bristol research findings into new materials for Maths teachers
A productive partnership in professional learning for maths teachers
Bristol research informs the use of Video Clubs for teacher development by the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM)
Developing Professional Learning Communities in Chinese and East Asian Schools
Major research collaboration with the National Institute for Educational Sciences in Beijing actively supports teacher development and learning tailored to East Asian contexts in China and Vietnam.
A better way to evaluate schools
Value-added measures of performance look beyond basic exam results, helping give a much clearer view of how schools perform within their regional and social context.
Closing the educational attainment gap
Research has helped shape new initiatives aimed at closing the educational attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.
Promoting educational equity in Chilean schools
In a country of widespread inequality, good education can help close the gap. But first, we need to decide what we mean by “good”.
Understanding and promoting the educational progress of children in care
Research led by Bristol and Oxford Universities has concluded that, contrary to popular belief, children in care make better educational progress than children living at home receiving social work support (‘children in need’): the care system, therefore, operates as an educational protective factor
Policy changes improve education standards for minority groups
Research-led changes to policies, programmes and practices have helped raise the school performance of students from black and ethnic minority backgrounds.
Improving implementation of human rights in Africa
Bristol’s Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC), supported by ESRC funding, carried out a programme of research that provided new evidence on what affects the implementation of human rights law. This has helped to bring about improvements to policies and practices in Africa to support the implementation of human rights law.
Improving the accuracy of evidence-based decision making
The University has developed and disseminated new statistical modelling methods that help policy making organisations answer important questions.
Reshaping migration laws in South America
Immigration regulation has long been a legal and political challenge in South America. Professor Diego Acosta has produced extensive research on the issue that has decisively influenced several articles of major new immigration laws adopted in Brazil and Ecuador.
Reforming abortion law in Northern Ireland
Prior to October 2019, abortion was illegal in Northern Ireland with very few exceptions. Research by Professor Sheelagh McGuinness and Dr Jane Rooney supported the campaign to decriminalise abortion and informed legislation that has enabled Northern Irish women to access legal and local abortion services.
Protecting UK employment rights
Over the last forty years, the UK has witnessed a gradual erosion of workers’ rights through labour market deregulation that has been balanced, at least to some degree, by the guarantee of fundamental rights through the EU.
Embedding “mastery” teaching in primary mathematics
A successful Knowledge Exchange project funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account has embedded Bristol research findings into new materials for Maths teachers
Confronting worker exploitation in electronics manufacturing
New research on links between reward and learning can bridge the gap between neuroscience and education, offering the chance to improve scientific understanding of learning amongst teachers.